Accessibility for simple to moderate-complexity DHTML web sites

Abstract

In this paper, we describe specific design and coding techniques for the creation of simple to medium complexity Dynamic HTML and AJAX applications, which are accessible to people with disabilities using mainstream user agents and assistive technology available at the time of this writing.

Bells, whistles, and alarms

“…More than one suggestion revolves around marking up content in a semantic manner as a base from which to develop. [3][6][8] [22] A development technique promoted early on in the AJAX timeline by Jeremy Keith is call Hijax. [12] The concept prescribes developing the web application without using any JavaScript (incorporating pages that fully refresh) and marking up the content as semantically as possible, then intercepting (hijacking) calls to the server that would fully refresh the page and using AJAX to enhance the behavior of the user interface.…”